Re-Energizing Suriname with Less Energy

Energy intensity can be dropped without harming the economy through energy reduction. Actually, the economy could grow while reducing energy use, if the economy’s base is transformed into knowledge-based industries (those with so-called increasing returns). Such a transition in itself provides opportunities for learning, skill and knowledge creation, network building, etc., and involves education and research institutes, small, medium and large business, industries and trade networks and proactive Government departments. Subsequently, businesses erected due to and during the transition towards an energy-efficient economy could export their products and services, thereby contributing further to the nation’s economy. This has been explored for Suriname using a top-down approach (ACEEE 2015 International Self-Scoring Tool) and bottom-up approaches to quantify reduction opportunities in each sector. Results show that reduced energy usage directly and indirectly amounts to US$ 194,188,398.10, with an investment of US$ 29.55 million. Furthermore, 274 jobs can be created by transitioning to an energy-efficient economy with an export market size of US$ 34 billion (based on gap analyses). However, this requires a dramatic shift in strategic direction, policy frameworks for energy and other fields. However, the investment can add to GDP and can transform the economy into one with increasing returns.

unlocking energy previously pegged to the currently closed aluminium smelter, and behavioural aspects. In fact, in Suriname the dominant thought is that the utilization of more energy is a necessary condition to grow the economy.
This forms the blueprint on which economic and energy policies are based on, as can be seen in Chin A Lin, et al. [18,19]. Countering this thought, the objective of the paper is to unravel the potential for energy efficiency and energy savings in the major energy-consuming sectors in Suriname, and what size of industries with increasing returns the transition towards this potential can establish. This paper continues with a brief theoretical background, with thereafter detailing the methodology. The sections thereafter respectively display the data and analysis, and the discussion of the results. The last section provides concluding remarks.

The energy consumptioneconomic growth nexus revisited
Over the years, many academics have attempted to make links between energy consumption and economic growth, the so-called energy consumptioneconomic growth nexus [20][21][22]. These efforts have produced figures such as the one depicted in Figure 1, which displays Gross Domestic Product per capita as a function of energy use for different countries. Such figures support the thought that an increase in energy use leads to an increase in GDP. As such, many sources in literature point out that the advancement of society in the twentieth century was aligned with a rise in energy consumption [23] and that further advancement of these societies requires more energy [24]. Thus, decreases in energy consumption will endanger the attainment of sustainable development [25]. Even the demise of modern societies is predicted if energy consumption can't continue its growth rate to keep up with the increasing energy metabolism of these societies [26].
This thought has gained further stronghold due to a myriad of research done on this nexus. These researches utilize various statistical methods and tools to identify the strength of the correlation between GDP and energy consumption [1,[27][28][29][30][31]. These studies encompass many different cases and periods, and describe the strength and direction of the causality between energy consumption and economic growth [1].
However, there is a growing body of critique on this body of research; a literature survey done by Ozturk [32] points out that there are quite some methodological reservations with respect to these studies. Chontanawat et al. states that there is no consensus on strength and direction of the causality between energy consumption and economic growth in cases scrutinized by different researchers. Chen et al. [33] goes even one-step further and highlights that the outcomes of these studies are significantly affected by the time spans, scope and models chosen. Other studies elaborate on this by claiming that the debates itself pose contradictory results, even when the scope, methods and variables are kept the same, but only the time period is changed [32,34,35]. For instance, in Apergis and Tang [36] it is stated that energy conservation policies should only be applied in low income countries since these will not hamper economic growth; this implies that higher income countries are not in need of energy conservation policies, a claim that can easily be refuted.
Furthermore, the studies that advocate the energy consumption-economic growth nexus often fall victim to their generalization. The models used barely reflect poor-rich and urban-rural divides differentiation between commercial and non-commercial energy commodities, informal economies, income distribution, etc. [37,38]. Notwithstanding the fact that the models don't even reflect developing countries, since the models are biased towards industrialized countries, researcher still attempt to claim evidence for the growth nexus in these cases [39]. Another generalization in these studies comes in the form of the derived conclusions. The statistical analyses take a number of variables corresponding solely to energy consumption and economic growth into account. They then ascribe changes in economic growth solely to changes in energy consumption. Wolde-Rufael [40] has proven in the case of selective African countries that such claims are overrated and downplay several other significant factors that are at play with respect to economic growth. As a matter of fact, the author found that energy consumption was only a contributing factor to economic growth, and one that is no more significant than capital or labor. Another form of generalization is expanding scientific claims to other countries that haven't been placed under scrutiny.

Knowledge inherent to energy efficiency and conservation measures
Energy systems consist of various aspects, which can be categorized into technological, social, economic, legislative, and environmental realms. Energy systems, regardless if this is the electricity, heat or transportation fuel supply infrastructure, are therefore so-called socio-technical system [41,42]. These different elements co-evolve with each other, meaning that if one aspect is changed this will trigger an adjustment of other elements of the sociotechnical system.
The research, development, deployment and actual utilization of energy efficiency and savings technologies require types of behaviours, skills, routines, and knowledge that coincide with these technologies [43]. Therefore introducing energy efficiency and energy conservation will by definition impact the elements of the socio-technical energy system in such a way that the elements of the system co-evolve in order to facilitate efficiency and conservation. The transition towards such a new set of behaviours, skills, routines, technologies and knowledge associated with the deployment of new energy efficiency and savings technologies requires knowhow and skills with respect to strategy, policy, research and development, operationalisation and commercialization, business models and processes, education, and the technologies themselves [44,45]. This is an important notion that is frequently underplayed since the majority of the focus for customers, policymakers, researchers, etc. is biased towards the technology involved with energy efficiency and energy conservation.
Through the transition towards energy efficiency and conservation, both suppliers and customers gain knowledge in each aspect of the socio-technical system through several sources of learning, namely learning-by-searching, learning-by-doing, learning-by-using, and learning-by interacting [43]. The latter form of learning gains prominence especially where suppliers of products and services enter in partnerships and "coopetition" (where they simultaneously cooperate and compete and share knowledge and learn from each other). This can reinforce and speed up the other forms of learning, cluster related technologies, create technology spillover, and even result in radical innovation [45][46][47]. "Knowledge" refers therefore to much more than "technological innovation" alone which is something that has been advocated by the main economic theories [48] and can in this research best be described by "the discovery of complexity inherent in the natural and social reality" [49].
As indicated by Pasqualetti et al. deploying energy efficiency and energy conservation to reduce the amount of energy used goes much further than just the purchase of a gadget that uses less energy. Rather, it is a synthesis of incremental knowledge gaining through various forms of learnings by all stakeholders in the socio-technical energy system, which ultimately culminates in a national innovation system able to produce radical innovations. An important notion here is that the process must be continuous in nature since there is a time lag between expenditures on research, development, demonstration and deployment on one hand, and gaining knowledge on the hand, which is found to be between two to five years [50][51][52]. Such a deployment is beneficial on all levels, since it involves technology that has proven to be a solid enabler of progress [9,53]. Furthermore, it uplifts education and skills which play a crucial role in the innovation system [10], and lowers prices of products and services [54]. Also, it enables people to make informed decisions and take responsible action with respect to energy consumption [55].
The transition can thus yield a competitive edge that is not based on just a natural comparative advantage [44].
Furthermore, the competitive edge has a degree of sustainability since it's built on the continuously accumulated knowledge gained through the forms of learning during the transition, which is something that can't easily be replicated. When policymakers, consumers, small, medium and large enterprises, non-governmental organizations, financial institutions, etc., participate in such a transition, this irrevocably implies that society as a whole has competitive advantage, since it has built this competitive capability [56][57][58].

Potential to create industries with increasing returns
The input factors information and knowledge are associated with industries with increasing returns, where scaling output up requires input increasing less proportionally, see Figure 2 [59]. The differences between decreasing and increasing returns point to inherent differences between the input factor capital and labor on one hand, and information and knowledge on the other hand. The latter can serve different entities simultaneously, can't be depleted, can increase in value the more they are used, and have the ability to yield new information and knowledge in the wake of their use through the different forms of learning [43,60,61].
Industries with increasing returns can be established if policy is present that creates the conditions for such industries, and shape behavioral patterns and the institutional landscape in such a way that these returns can actually be achieved [58]. These are then conditions for the formulation of energy policy, since the transition to sustainable energy systems and with them the inherent energy efficiency and energy conservation coincides with the accumulation, development and deployment of information and knowledge (as discussed in the previous section).
This harbors within it the potential to create industries with increasing returns [62]. Knowledge acquisition also facilitates effort to decline costs, further enhancing the increasingly returning mechanism. This positively affects job creation, in the sense that energy efficiency and conservation spending create direct, indirect and induced jobs.

Conceptual model
There is a large body of work in academic literature that clearly points towards a positive link between energy consumption and economic growth; from a macroeconomic perspective. Studies that point in the opposite direction, viz. decreasing energy use while simultaneously growing the economy, contest this positive link. According to this point of view the effects of the transition towards energy efficiency and savings result in the acquirement of knowledge through various form of learning in the social, legal, environmental, political, economic and technological realm, which offers the possibility to create knowledge industries with increasing returns [14,15].
These two views are shown in the conceptual models in Figure 3.

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Potential:
The energy efficiency and energy conservation potential will be determined from both a top-down (macro-economic) and bottom-up (sectoral or microeconomic) approach, in order to facilitate triangulation to strengthen any claims that will come forward in the analysis.

Top-down approach:
The top-down approach will be executed by using the ACEEE 2014 international energy efficiency scorecard which uses a set of macroeconomic indicators and some sector-specific information to guesstimate the rough potential for energy efficiency and energy conservation.

Bottom-up approach:
Energy consumption in Suriname can primarily be broken down into the transportation sector (using fossil fuels), the electricity market, and the cooking gas market (Liquid Petroleum Gas).
The largest segments of the electricity market will be identified using data from utility companies [68,69]. Thus far, the following areas for energy efficiency and saving potential calculation that will be addressed are:  Transportation sector: using traffic intensity figures NEA, 2010 [70], the Paramaribo infrastructure scheme, and proposed solutions (as recent as 2010) will be used to calculate the amount of fuel saved. Also using data from other studies [15,70] it will be assessed through empirical data how much fuel can be saved by introducing more fuel efficient cars, car sharing, etc.;  Street lighting: using the amount and type of street lights currently in use, the amount of energy saved by switching to high efficiency lamps can be estimated using data from [71]. Apart from energy efficiency, empirical data from other studies will be used to assess the amount of energy can be reduced through conservation schemes like switching of light when there is nobody near the vicinity [72][73][74];  High-voltage electricity infrastructure;  Housing: using data on amounts and types of houses in Suriname [75], combined with the quantified benefits of efficiency saving measures, the amount of energy that can be saved is calculated;  Appliances: using data on appliances in use [75], and the average gap between best performing appliances and these appliances in use [76,77], the energy efficiency potential is estimated.

Estimating the size of energy efficiency and conservation sector
Using figures for energy efficiency and energy conservation potential in the region identified with IEA [17], market sizes for energy reduction measures export are identified, by calculating the potential for energy saving though the comparison of their energy intensity with benchmark figures. Next, empirical figures from other studies [63, 64] are used to determine how many jobs can be established by transitioning Suriname to an energy efficiency economy.

Energy Intensity
The earlier criticism on the energy intensity concept notwithstanding, providing a historic trend of Suriname's energy intensity is a good way to start scrutiny on energy efficiency and conservation potential in different sectors.
To this end, Gross Domestic Product figures have been obtained from the World Bank [78] and predictions from the International Monetary Fund Article IV (IMF, 2014) [79] for the period covering 2007 till 2014. With respect to total primary energy supply (TPES), all forms of energy need to be taken into account, which imply electricity and liquid fuels such as propane (used for cooking), fuel oil, diesel, gasoline and kerosene. Figures for these energy carriers have been obtained from KEMA [68], the General Bureau of Statistics [80], the local utility company [69], Ministry of Finance [81] and Suralco [82]. Energy intensity has also been calculated on a per capita basis using population data from the General Bureau of Statistics [75] which needed to be extrapolated.  [69,80] applying a best fit curve to the data. A similar exercise was done for propane;  Though marginal in the overall picture, electricity delivered in the interior was considered constant due to a lack of data which could provide some opportunity to extrapolate. The only data available thus far was from KEMA [68];  A portion of the diesel is used for electricity generation [69,81]. For the computations for energy intensity one should therefore be careful that no double counting is done by including both electricity and the diesel used to generate this electricity;

Overview of Suriname's energy sector
Though literature differs on this point to some (minor) extent, energy users are divided in Residential, Industrial and Transportation sectors [15,83] Figure 5 displays the main energy and energy carrier flows in the case of Suriname.

Sectors and systems under Scrutiny
The attempt is to provide the largest possible coverage of sectors in Suriname for this research. The coverage depends on the data available, the extent to which past data can be used to provide estimates of the present, data from academic and non-academic literature, statistical compendiums and business papers, and the methods used.
Taking these aspects into account, the following sectors will be examined: Electricity network: the EPAR network ( Figure 5) will be of primary concern, including generation systems, the transmission and distribution system (including substations and transformers), and customers. This doesn't imply that the other separate networks ( Figure 6) don't have any potential for energy savings and efficiency, but the lack of data and their small size relative to the EPAR network imply that these can be omitted since they will have a  grids and sells electricity obtained from its own generating centre and bought from State Oil and Suralco to more than 148.000 residential and commercial customers ( Figure 7).
In the interior there are 111 villages of which the majority receives electricity from the Ministry Natural Resources.
The Ministry delivers diesel-fueled combustion engines with generators which feed electricity via distribution lines to the villages ( Figure 5). This electricity supply is very expensive due to high transportation costs and unreliable (electricity is only provided a few hours per day, fuel doesn't always arrive on time, long lead times to repair broken equipment, etc.).
 Buildings: the residential, industrial, commercial and public services buildings will be assessed with respect to relative easy and affordable retrofits to reduce energy consumptions. Also, potential savings from improved appliance standards will be examined, particularly since segregate data on appliances is available from the Statistics Office;  Industrial sector: the alumina industry has stopped as of end of November 2015, and no responses have been obtained from the State Oil company. However, using publicly available data and benchmarking analysis, the industrial gold and rice sector will be analysed.
 Transportation system: using the same logic behind the electricity system, in the case of the transportation system the roads in Greater Paramaribo will be placed under scrutiny.
The roads in Suriname total approximately 3890 km, of which the majority is in the Greater Paramaribo region (encompassing the districts Paramaribo, Wanica, Saramacca and Commewijne). These roads can be divided into asphalt, paved, sand and lateritic roads [16]. The main roads connecting the different regions in Suriname are depicted in Figure 8. All these different regions and connections notwithstanding, Suriname's administrative, commercial, residential, logistic, health care and educational centre is in and around Paramaribo. This has resulted in an expensive and overcrowded centre, people and developers have opted to move outward ( Figure 9), a trend which is still continuing to this day. However, by far the majority of employment and service-providing centres are still located within close proximity of Paramaribo's centre, which combined with poor public transportation and (hence) a heavily private vehicle ownership-centred culture has resulted in inefficient traffic.

Figure 9:
Population density (amount of people per hectare) of the Greater Paramaribo region [84].
Taking into account that the majority of the energy is used in the transportation, residential and industrial sectors, and the latter consists in Suriname of primarily rice cultivation and the petroleum and mining sectors, the sectors chosen will provide a reasonable estimation of countrywide energy efficiency and conservation benefits.

Top-down analysis
The International energy Efficiency Scorecard is a numerical program from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) that uses metrics for policy and performance in order to determine the extent an economy uses energy efficiently [85]. The tool has been used in the case of Suriname. The following provides an overview of the parameters that need to be addressed, and how the computations have been done to achieve the input for each of them:  Total final energy consumption: use the heating values and the total amount of liquid fuels used (minus the amount that is used for energy generation) to get the amount of energy for the transportation sector (other than the EBS, other industries primarily use liquid fuels for the fleet);  Primary energy consumed: using electricity generating plant efficiencies (typically around 35%), calculate the amount of primary energy (i.e. the fuels that provide the input to the generating plants) used. This is added to the transportation fuels to obtain total primary energy consumption;  Transportation consumption: see first bullet;  Residential, Industrial and Commercial and public services consumption: use is made of KEMA [68].
Where the amount of customers for each category is provided. This division of customers categories is assumed the same for 2014, and it is assumed that the amount of energy is split the same way, namely respectively 89.8%, 9.3% and 0.9%;  GDP from 2000 in current USD is obtained from CBvS;  Total final energy consumption is obtained by extrapolating data from Appendix C;  The heat rate for power plants is the reverse of the efficiency factor (assumed to be 35%);  Distribution losses are obtained from KEMA (2008) [68] and assumed to have stayed constant, namely 8.40%;  Floor space of residential buildings: the average floor space of a residential building is 100 m 2 [86,87], which is multiplied with the total amount of residential buildings obtained from ABS [75]. The same is done for commercial buildings where the average floor space is 1000 m 2 [86];  It is assumed that the entire year use is made of air conditioning systems because of the tropical climate;  The GDP of the industrial sector (excluding the agricultural sector) is assumed to consist of primarily gold, oil and bauxite. The rationale behind this is that these sectors are by far the largest in the country. Their contribution to GDP can be obtained from CBvS [88] and is respectively 11.5%, 13% and 3%;  The share of combined heat and power (CHP) as a percentage of total power generation refers to those electricity generating systems which not only produce electricity but also steam. In Suriname, only the State Oil plants and the Suralco plant at Paranam are CHP units. To obtain the percentage their combined capacity needs to be divided by the total available capacity;  There is hardly any spending on Research and Development by either research institutes or companies. It is therefore assumed that on an annual basis the spending is around USD 50,000;  The energy intensity of agriculture is calculated by multiplying the heating value for diesel with the amounts of diesel used in the rice sector, obtained from Ganpat [81]. Though, there are other agricultural subsectors, the rice sector is by far the largest, and actually the only one for which reliable data is available;  The average vehicle travels around 15,000 km annually [87], which can be converted into average distance per person with the amount of vehicles [16] and population [75]. A similar feat can be done for public transit, which averages 50,000 km per vehicle [87]. The fuel economy of light duty vehicles is assumed to be 29 miles per gallon [83], since the car fleet in Suriname is relatively older than those in Western countries, and there is a mix of European, Japanese, and American cars in use.

Bottom-up analysis
The following subsections provide the bottom-up analysis for several sectors and systems. Once the switch to LED lamps have been made, operational measures such as "dimming" and "switching" with minimal costs to further reduce energy consumption. "Dimming" is the measure where lights are dimmed if there are no people (with or without vehicles) in the vicinity in order to save energy. "Switching" refers to the measure where each other lamps is switched off if there are no people (with or without vehicles) in the vicinity. "Dimming" and "switching" can save at least respectively 10% and 18% [72][73][74] which (in the case of fully deployed LED lighting) would amount to 1.86 GWh and 6.70 GWh.

Transmission and distribution network:
The amount of electricity consumed varies during the day.
"Demand flexibility" refers to the phenomenon where (primarily) the utility provides incentives to shift demand [89]. This stimulates consumers to shift their activities in such a way that they make use of the availability of lower prices and shun the use of high-priced electricity, for example by doing the laundry (an energy-intensive activity) during the evening. This is depicted in Figure 10. In the cases of both efficiency demand flexibility, the peak demand is lowered which implies that the utility company have to have less reserve capacity to meet that peak demand. Since that reserve capacity sits idle for most of the remainder of the day, the life cycle cost of the equipment is high, which explains why the electricity produced with this equipment (which happens during the peak demand period) is high. Initially, it seems that demand flexibility simply shifts demand without actually reducing the amount of energy used. However, the availability of real-time usage and price data triggers reduction of energy use, e.g. by switching of unnecessary lights. The energy savings have been estimated to be between 12 -40% [89,90]. The conservative route is taken, and the lower figure is used for calculations. The total amount of electricity used in 2014 was 1,538 GWh, which means that 0.12*1,538 = 184.5 GWh could be saved with demand flexibility.
The EBS' transmission and distribution networks have more than 16,000 transformers. Though efficiencies of transformers reach up into more than 80 and even 90%, the fact that they process large amounts of electricity and the fact that there are many transformers in the entire grid, imply that even a small efficiency improvement will save large amounts of electricity. The majority of the transformers within the EBS' network are relatively old; replacing these with the newest standards for transformers could at least save 4% of energy demand [15,91]. A typical roll-out would take a couple of years because of the capital involved, so it is advised that demand flexibility is implemented first. Therefore the amount saved with new transformers would be (1,538 GWh -184.5 GWh)*0.04 = 54.13 GWh.

Generation:
The electricity generating plants at State Oil, EBS and Suralco (Paranam location) all use fossil fuels. In the case of Suralco (Paranam location) and State Oil, these fossil fuels are Heavy Fuel Oil (Bunker C type, no. 6) which is produced by the State Oil company. EBS, however, uses a combination of diesel and Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). In the past they converted a number of their machines from being diesel-fed to HFO-fed, since HFO has a lower cost compared to diesel and HFO machines require less fuel to generate a particular amount of electricity compared to machines which run on diesel. However, there are still 7 combustion engines which run on diesel fuel. Table 2 shows the difference in consumption. Here it is assumed that the average capacity of 1 combustion engine with generator is 8MW (maximum output), which is typical for the machines at EBS [68,69]. Another assumption is that equipment is not used the entirety of the time; a conservative figure of 60% for utilization is used to account for repair and maintenance and the fact that these equipment are relative expensive generators as opposed to Suralco's hydroelectric facility which means that they will as far as possible be used to cover peak demand.  year. Once again these are conservative estimates, implying that there is more than sufficient rationale to execute the conversion or purchase HFO-fueled equipment, at a cost of roughly US$ 1 million per MW capacity [69].

Industrial sector:
The Surinamese economy hinges on the mining, agriculture and services (tourism) sector.
The services sector is less energy intensive and figures are not readily available with respect to energy usage in this sector. Therefore, the processes in services sector will not be scrutinized in this research. Agriculture consists of several subsectors, such as rice, banana, vegetables, fisheries, etc. However, only reliable energy data for the rice sectors (which constitutes a large portion within the agriculture sector) is available, implying this particular subsector will be examined.
With respect to mining, there are 3 large industries: gold, alumina and oil. The alumina industry has stopped its production activities as of mid-December 2015. With respect to State Oil, reliable energy input data and / or productivity data could not be obtained; despite many attempts, there was no response to the requests done. The gold industry could be apprehended, though, using publicly available data en benchmarking standards.
A gross estimate of the potential savings has been obtained by simply looking at the energy inputs versus the production outputs and comparing these with benchmark standards in the world. The approach is therefore not as meticulous as done in the case of buildings or the electricity network, i.e. by looking at different parts, elements and processes within the entire system, but still differs from the top-down approach.

Rice:
The rice sector uses almost exclusively diesel as its energy input. Approximately 125 L/ha is used, which with a diesel heating value of 44.6 MJ/kg, and a density of 836 kg/m 3 results in 4.655 GJ/ha. In the U.S., Japan, and Philippines the energy input is 11.251, 4.152, and 0.173 GJ/ha [83]. Both the U.S. and the Philippines are not fit to be used for comparison with the Surinamese rice sector, since they differ in the degree of mechanization. In the U.S., use is made of energy intensive machinery and the sector is heavily subsidized which is counterproductive towards energy saving [83]. In the Philippines, much of the rice cultivation is done by hand and with the use of caribous. Therefore, the figure for Japan will be used as the benchmark for the rice industry. Though the difference seems small (4.655 -4.152 = 0.503 GJ/ha), taking into account the amount of land in Suriname that is cultivated in the rice sector, namely 30.400 ha, the amount of savings that can be achieved by adopting Japanese practices, processes, equipment, organization, coordination and procedures equals 15,296.5 GJ.

Gold:
In gold production, the ore is mined, milled, refined and ultimately smelted into bullions. Typical metrics for energy use here are the amount of energy used per amount of gold produced and the amount of energy used per tonne of ore milled. Such metrics are obtained for many plants and usually plotted in graphs such as the one in Figure 11. In the case of the Surinamese gold industry, the energy use is 0.22 GJ/t milled [93,94]. The benchmark 0.0936 GJ / t milled. The extent to which the benchmark is achievable depends on the age of the plant, the degree of technological sophistication, and the gold availability in the ore. Since the industrial gold industry in Suriname is owned by a multinational with a plant that is relatively new, the benchmark figure will be adopted for the calculations. In 2013, 12 million tonnes of ore were milled [93,94]. The potential savings therefore is (0.22 -0.0936)*12 million = 1.52 million GJ.

Buildings:
Though usually a distinction is made between industrial, residential and the transportation sector, this research will go one step further and not just focus on the residential sector, but focus on all buildings. The main focal points here are escape routes for air, appliances and lighting (only the residential sector is taken here into account), boilers and glazing. Measures for energy efficiency associated with these items are fairly easy implemented. However, calculations will be done with respect to building more efficient homes, which can be included in energy consumption growth prognoses. Existing buildings can be retrofitted (e.g. wall insulation), but these are relatively difficult (as opposed to merely replacing windows or appliances), expensive and not always suitable for the manner in which buildings are constructed in Suriname, namely with literally brick and mortar.
Therefore, the more intricate, complex, and expensive energy saving measures will be omitted for existing buildings, but will be taken into account for new buildings where the introduction of such measures is easier and far more affordable.

Air conditioning:
There are a total of 134,329 residential buildings in Suriname, of which 33,743 have an installed and working air conditioning system, which amounts to 33.71% [75]. This percentage will be extrapolated to all buildings; it can be safely assumed that commercial, industrial and public buildings have a higher percentage of buildings equipped with air conditioning system, which means that the outcome of the computations won't be overstated.
The majority of the electricity produced is used by the residential, commercial, public and industrial sector, thus implying that the total amount using the figures for 2014 electricity production and / or delivery by the Ministry of Natural Resources (DEV) and EBS equals 134.21 ktoe (Appendix C). Applying the same percentage, then the amount of buildings equipped with air conditioning system consume 33.71 ktoe. Approximately 40% of the energy consumption of a building is used for climate control [96]; this means in the case of Suriname, 40% of the energy consumption can be attributed to the use of air conditioning systems (there is no heating of buildings involved because of the local climate). This means that 13.49 ktoe is used for air conditioning systems. This figure will now be used to calculate the opportunity in the case of escape routes for air and glazing.
Using these air conditioning systems in conjunction with so-called smart thermostats can save 0.5% [95], or 0.06745 ktoe. Smart thermostats are able to learn the behaviour and preferences of the residents, and the different settings during the day. Such thermostats can therefore faster anticipate on required drops in air conditioning, can be programmed to achieve a particular energy saving, and even work within the time-of-use pricing concept (e.g. a smart thermostat has the ability to pre-cool a house before the arrival of the resident because the electricity is cheaper at that particular moment).

Lighting:
The average home has 10 lamps using 40 watts. It is assumed that all homes use at least compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and that no incandescent lamps (most inefficient lamps) are in use, and that not all lamps are powered at the same time (an estimated 50% of the lamps are actually switched on during the day) and that are in use for 4 hours on a daily basis [98] annual consumption in all residential buildings is: 134,329*10*40*4*0.5*365 = 39.22 GWh. A saving of 50% can be achieved when switching over to LED lamps; assuming again that 50% of the residential buildings have highly efficient lighting, the potential savings equal 0.5*0.5*39.22 GWh = 9.81 GWh (0.843 ktoe).

Boiler:
There are 8657 boilers installed in buildings [75]. However, ABS doesn't specify which of the boilers are fed with solar radiation and which ones are fed with electricity. Solar boilers have not yet really penetrated the Surinamese market, and it assumed that only 10% of the total amount of boilers is of the solar type.
Extrapolating this for all buildings, assuming that electricity usage is evenly distributed over all buildings, and taking into account that electric boilers can account up to 20% of electricity usage (and using the average from a normalized distribution point of view), 5.8%*10%*134.21 ktoe = 0.78 ktoe can be saved if all electric boiler users switch over to solar boilers. An important note here is that this actually doesn't exactly qualify under energy efficiency or energy conservation; however, whether of renewable energy analyses focus on the entire electricity supply or demand, this concerns a specific appliance, hence it has been taken here separately. Table 3 presents an overview of appliances, the amounts present in all residential buildings [80], the minimum and maximum energy use, the average use (assuming a normalized distribution for the different usages across the residential buildings) [76,77], and the potential savings if either the appliance was eliminated or replaced with a more efficient model. In the case of wash dryers and dish washing machines, these can be considered eligible for complete elimination from the appliance roster, since these are energy intensive appliances [83] while suitable, easily realizable, low-cost and effective alternatives exist; respectively, drying clothes outside through natural convection and radiation and washing the dishes manually. In the case of these two appliances, the minimum amount of energy they consume it taken into account for conservative calculation purposes.

Appliances:
The amount of hours appliances are using is estimated with the help of [99]. The potential saving is obtained by multiplying the mean minus the minimum energy consumption with the hours in use and extrapolating the answer for the entire year. Applying this to all the appliances in the table results in an energy efficiency and conservation savings of 4.39 GWh.
Apart from the electricity that is drawn through regular use, these appliances also draw so-called standby power (i.e. they are not in use, but plugged in and can be switched on at any time, like for instance a television set    Research has shown that through the following measures the amount of travel can be reduced:

Transportation sector
 Eco-driving refers to anticipating traffic, traffic lights, speed bumps, roundabouts, crossings, etc. in such a way that minimal braking and accelerating is required. Such driving is able to reduce the fuel consumption equivalent to a reduction of 10 -15% of the total kilometres driven [15]. Applying this to the figures of Assuming an even split between diesel and gasoline consumption (there is no specific data available on this front) and using respective densities and heating values, 2585786479 MJ can be saved annually.
Another avenue where fuel (and thus energy) can be saved is the reduction of traffic queues. Figure 12 shows the daily amount of vehicles passing specific streets in Paramaribo, while Figure 13 shows the locations with daily traffic congestions. These traffic congestions last about 20 minutes on average [100] and involve about 8% of the daily traffic in that location. Using Figure 12 and overlaying it with the congestions displayed in Figure 13, the most important roads with intense traffic can be identified. Using 8% of the daily vehicle passing on those roads, the amount of vehicles involved in the traffic congestion can be calculated. Assuming that these vehicles are idling, i.e.
they're at a standstill while the engine is running, in combination with the fuel usage in such a mode, the amount of fuel used can be obtained. NEA (2011) has proposed a solution for the traffic congestion by turning certain roads into one-way roads, which would effectively reduce time spent in traffic from 20 to 5 minutes. This would save fuel, and assuming again an even split between diesel and gasoline vehicles, the amount of energy saved can be calculated (as done previously).  Some roads will become priority roads with the right-of-way; these roads will be picked based on the condition that they form a mesh with a width of 2 -3 kilometers;  Priority roads won't have access to private properties;  Public transportation is not allowed to stop on priority roads to let in / out passengers;  Pedestrian crossings will be concentrated and strongly protected (speed bumps, plateaus, traffic lights, barriers, etc.);  The design speed is increased;  Parking is made impossible at the priority roads by means of obstacles;  Intersections are designed to optimize traffic flow;  Priority roads only connected with other connecting and access roads;  The inner city of Paramaribo will have a city ring with clockwise one-way traffic ( Figure 14);  Parking on the city ring is prohibited; Obviously, these aren't the only proposed solutions, but give a proper overview of the change that is required to optimize traffic flow and thus reduce traffic congestions.  It is assumed that the traffic intensities displayed in Figure 12 have grown at the same rate as the amount of vehicles on the road. Hence, using the ratio of the amount of vehicles in 2014 (ABS, 2015) [16] and in 2007 / 2008 (when the data to compile Figure 12 was obtained), which is 1.3, the intensities in Figure 13 have been adjusted. Fuel usage when idling is set at 1.5 L per hour [101], and 5 days per week are taken into account. The number of weeks is set at 40 since on national holidays and during school breaks (totaling around 10 weeks) traffic congestion is significantly reduced and hardly an issue. Table 5   Total 1258400 314600 Table 5: Traffic reduction by implementing proposals from NEA [73].

Effects on the economy
The following subsections provide the effects of (the transition to) the reduced electricity and fuel consumption on the overall Surinamese economy.

Monetary savings:
The amount of diesel saved using to Table 2

Export potential:
An estimate has been made of the market size in the region when it regards implementation of energy efficiency and conservation. Such as exercise is relevant since it provides export potential for the locally generated workforce resulting from the transition to an economy with low energy intensity. An approximation has been achieved by comparing the energy intensity of regional countries with a benchmark energy intensity figure.
The difference is multiplied with the countries' GDP to ascertain the amount of savings, which with Rumsey [102] can be equated to a particular amount of required investments to achieve those savings. It must be noted here that 1) not all countries within the immediate region have been included in this exercise because of a lack of data, and 2) the results should be approached with caution because of the criticism ousted against the use of energy intensity as a measure for the energy efficiency and conservation potential (see section 4.1). The data has been obtained from IEA [103] and used in Table 6 which also harbours the savings potential per country. As benchmark, the energy intensity figure for the EU-28 has been picked; its energy intensity is 0.10927 toe/000 2005 US$ which is much lower than the U.S., the World, and the OECD countries while its prosperity levels (a term picked loosely here to refer to the combination of HDI, GDP, transparency index, etc.) are regarded as one of the highest in the world.
The total potential market size is US$ 34.84 billion. It must be noted though that the high energy intensities of Trinidad and Tobago (accounting for 12.0% of the total) and Venezuela (accounting for 38.8%) skew the outcome; these two countries have abundant oil and gas reserves and have as a result energy-intensive industries, and subsidized gas and electricity prices which subsequently results in lack of attention to energy reduction measures.  Table 6: Potential market size in the region for energy efficiency and conservation.

Reduction of negative externalities:
Reduction of fuel for transportation will automatically lead to a decrease in negative externalities *e.g. air pollution, traffic accidents), especially since traffic intensities in urban areas is relatively high [73]. The European Institute for Sustainable Transport [104] has monetized these effects and related them to vehicle-kilometres driven. Using that data and the figures from Table 4, Table 7 can be generated which provides the total amount of externalities associated with the transportation sector.    Figure 4 depicts a declining energy intensity which at first glance seems favorable.

Energy intensity:
However, when looking at the energy used on a per capita base the regression line in Figure 15 is obtained. It is seen that annual increases in energy use are leveling off, which is likely the result of the production curtailment of the alumina refinery which started in 2009. Due to Suriname's relative small spread, large industries, such as the alumina, large-scale gold and oil industry (which all happen to be energy intensive) have a significant impact on the country's energy consumption. Furthermore, the declining trend in Figure 4 is explained by the increases in GDP.
Also, notwithstanding the production curtailment in the energy-intensive alumina industry, energy use per capita is still on the rise (though annual increases are declining). Another noteworthy mention is that Suriname's energy intensity is on par with that of the EU-28 though the latter enjoys more favorable (economic) development indicators. This implies that Suriname is indeed inefficient when it concerns energy use, since it is unable to convert the energy use into similar parameter values; the country has a sub-par performance in this regard.  Table 9 below provides an overview of the calculated savings that can be achieved. Figure 16 provides a distinction of the savings potential for electricity and liquid fuels.   The Figure 18 below shows the distribution of the energy saving potential across the different sectors / systems. It is striking to see that the transportation sector has the largest share in the total amount of savings, even though the savings identified amount to 13.14% of the energy usage in the sector.

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Electricity system Industry Residential Transportation

Comparison of results
The results from the ACEEE's 2015 International Self-Scoring Tool show that Suriname is the lowest ranking country when it concerns energy efficiency and conservation (Appendix A). However, only a handful of countries have been considered, and none of them have a profile similar to Suriname, which is relatively small-scale and depending on energy intensive extractive industries. However, the result does confirm to some extent the magnitude of the savings that were found using the bottom-up analyses. The transportation sector scored only 3 points which confirms the magnitude of savings found using the bottom-up analysis. On the other hand, the industrial sector scored the highest of all sectors, though the two industries examined in the bottom-up analysis combined showed an energy reduction potential of close to 50%. Also, the building sector scored low, but it appeared in Figure 18 that this sector has a small portion in the total amount of possible savings.
Furthermore, the bottom-up approach enables the determination of effects which are the result of a reduction in energy, such as direct and indirect jobs created, reduction in negative externalities, export potential, etc. The topdown approaches don't have the ability to do this, nor do they provide the output from which the impact on these aspects can be deduced. The results for these spin-off effects also provide input for policy formulation in all branches of Government, which increases the likelihood of a comprehensive policy encompassing the different Governmental bodies.

Contribution to gross domestic product
In section 4 it is shown that the money directly saved through reduced energy usage amounts to US$ saved seems paltry compared to GDP (which is more than US$ 5 billion) the savings are relatively a magnitude larger than in the case of the United States. Lovins [15] has shown that the U.S. is able to save 0.83% of their GDP through energy efficiency and conservation. In case of Suriname, this figure is 4.11% and doesn't take into account fully fledged developed and commercially available efficiency and conservation measures as is done in Lovins [15].
According to Rumsey [102], The effects of the services export to the region on the local economy are difficult to determine, because the size of the foreign savings opportunity that can be capitalized upon depends on a myriad of factors (e.g. national policy, climate agreements, oil prices, vested interests). However, the relative size of the Surinamese economy implies that these created jobs in conjunction with the export potential might have a considerable impact on the local economy (Planning Office Suriname, 2016) [105], This could evolve into a strong service-oriented cluster [106,107]. Figure 20 shows the approximate timeline for each measure to have been completely deployed to full effect. These are based on the adoption curves and market penetration rates obtained from Lovins [15] and Riley et al. [108].

Timelines
These timelines are aligned with the expected impacts of these measures on GDP growth, energy intensity, energy usage per capita, energy savings investment, and annual savings. The major determinant in this regard is the amount of savings that each measure can generate, from which job creation, negative externalities, investments required, etc.
can be deducted (as is done in section 4). These impacted trends are qualitatively also depicted in Figure 20.

Figure 20:
Timelines for the different energy savings measures [15,108] and the resulting qualitative trends for several macro indicators.

Concluding Remarks
Any effort towards countrywide energy efficiency and conservation does not exist in a vacuum. It should be part of an overarching energy policy, which in itself is deduced from the choices made on a strategic level. Currently there is hardly any sound energy strategy and policy. The only goal currently in mind in the so-called energy sector reform (permitting more producing companies, dividing the sector in separate entities, removing most monopolies, etc.). Given the profoundness of changes required and the different sector and consumers affected, it suffices to say that such an approach will hardly reduce the energy input required for services. A drive towards energy reduction should be etched in the overall energy policy and strategy formulation with concrete measures (such as the implementation of time-of-use pricing) and targets.
A coherent policy is a must for the implementation of energy reduction measures, more so than in the case of implementing renewable energy technology, since the latter doesn't have profound intrusions in all dimensions of the energy system with its producers and consumers. This coherence is especially important when the transition towards an energy-efficient economy is utilized as a stepping stone to create an industry of high-value service providers which are able to access a vast regional market. This coherence encompasses industrial, trade, education, foreign, urban development, environmental, technology and science, and finance (taxation) policy, amongst others.
Energy reduction policies also need to approach efficiency and conservation a holistic viewpoint. A notable example of this is the conception of the urban settlements in Suriname which would result in decreased traffic intensities and a reduction of the heat island effect in Paramaribo. Furthermore, it would transition the country towards a primarily service-based economy from a extractive-based economy, and from decreasing returning industries towards increasing returning industries. The latter would add to the job creation effect of the transition towards an energyefficient economy [109].
Investing in energy efficiency and conservation measures in a well-thought through, planned and coordinated fashion is able to significantly add to GDP growth. It harbors the possibility to create a knowledge-based industry to can serve the region. As a result, such an investment has the ability to help the transformation of the economy from one that is based on industries with decreasing returns to one with increasing returns.